My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.